Almo's Books

10/10/2026

06/10/2026

Carterton Space Week 💫 🪐 🌙 ✨

03/10/2026

Reminder Almo’s Cafe is now open 7 days.
This Sunday in addition to the menu and regular cabinet offerings, Helena’s specials of the day will be a divine
chocolate torte, baked stuffed potatoes, and
soft eggs on ciabatta with avocado and chilli sauce .
Cafe open Saturday and Sunday 9am to 2pm.

Reminder Almo’s Cafe is now open 7 days.
This Sunday in addition to the menu and regular cabinet offerings, Helena’s specials of the day will be a divine
chocolate torte, baked stuffed potatoes, and
soft eggs on ciabatta with avocado and chilli sauce .
Cafe open Saturday and Sunday 9am to 2pm. See less

03/10/2026

Book Club is on Sunday the 4th at 1pm at Almo's Café

03/10/2026

Almo's welcomes you tomorrow!

26/09/2026

September edition of Booklovers Wairarapa

Book Lovers Wairarapa | & other activities in Wairarapa & Greater Wellington.

22/09/2026

Almo's Books & Cafe has 6 copies in stock - RRP $25.50

22/09/2026

Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed?

When the Marquis of Queensbury left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only his name and five words: 'For Oscar Wilde, posing Somdomite'. The most feted playwright of his day famously sued for libel, which led to his arrest, criminal prosecution and ultimately prison.

From then on, his gilded existence spiralled into public disgrace, humiliation and an early death.But what if he had simply ignored the insult?

What direction might his life have taken? This is the premise of John Boyne's extraordinary new novel, The Weight of Angels.Rather than dying in penury in Paris at the age of forty-six, what if he had lived to bear witness to the momentous events and cataclysmic changes of the first part of the twentieth century, and even influence some of them? What if the second half of his life were as celebrated, dramatic, tumultuous and exhilarating as the first?

In imagining the life that Oscar Wilde never had, John Boyne has written one of the great what-if stories of modern literature, giving the great Anglo-Irish poet and playwright a fresh new voice and the opportunity to take an entirely different path.

Only $38.00 💛💛💛

22/09/2026

Daphne du Maurier stole my life.' From enduring bestseller Rose Tremain comes a sweeping and dramatic story of secret love and a bold imagining of how a Classic novel came to be written.

'Daphne du Maurier stole my life.'

Mrs Danowski - known as Danni - is the housekeeper of a grand house on the wild coast of Cornwall. When a glamorous young writer, Daphne du Maurier, visits Manderville Hall to research her new novel, she and Danni are drawn into a clandestine and intoxicating affair. For Danni, it is an all-consuming love; for Daphne a submission to long-suppressed desires. But their fragile secret is vulnerable to prying eyes and destined for heartbreak.

When Daphne's novel launches to triumphant success, Danni is distraught to find herself transformed into a malign and jealous character on the page. She seeks respite from the hurt by telling her own story- The Housekeeper. What unforeseen encounters, what forbidden feelings can inspire a writer?

With flair and panache, Rose Tremain has invented the story of how a great novel of the past came into being and in turn creates a masterwork of her own.

Only $38.00😍